Guillermo Carey

Partner of Carey and co-head of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Information Technology, Venture Capital and Private Equity Groups. Also, he is the head of the Life Sciences, Technology and Consumer Law Group.

His practice specializes in intellectual property, life sciences, IP litigation, licensing, distribution and franchise agreement, data privacy, technology law, trademarks, patents, electronic commerce, technology transfer and artificial intelligence.

Guillermo has advised high-impact Chilean technology companies on technology transfer, and the internationalization of these.

He has also advised the Chilean Government on various fronts related to IP and transfer of technology.

Education

Law, Universidad Católica de Chile.

Activities

• President of the Board of Directors of Foroinnovación.
• Director of the Chilean Cybersecurity Alliance (Alianza Chilena de Ciberseguridad).
• Member of the Advisory Council of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
• Former director and past president of the American Chilean Chamber of Commerce (AmCham).
• President of the Ethics Committee at Endeavor.
• Former chief legal counsel, Crystal Lagoons.
• Former member of "Grupo Acción Digital", part of the Chilean government plan for the development of Chile’s digital agenda (appointed by the government).
• Former vicepresident of the National Council for Domain Names and IP Addresses of Chile.
• Former member of the National Consulting Council of the Computer Law Studies Center (Centro de Estudios de Derecho Informático-CEDI), School of Law, Universidad de Chile.
• Assistant secretary general of AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property) with responsibility over the Americas (2004 – 2010).
• Intellectual Property Constituency’s representative, Names Council of the Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO) of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) (2000-2002).
• Panelist for the resolution of domain name disputes, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2002).
• Chair of the Q-160 ICANN Task Force, AIPPI (2002).
• Arbitrator, Chilean Country Code Name Registrar (NIC Chile) (1998).
• Member of NIC Chile’s advisory board. Part of the group that drafted the local dispute resolution policy (1998).
• Lawyer, Intellectual Property Department, Philip Morris International, New York (1995-1996).
  

Publications

• Co-author of the Chilean chapter in ICLG - Consumer Protection, Global Legal Group (2020).
• Co-author of The Pharma Legal Handbook: Chile, Pharma Boardroom (2019).
• Co-author of the Chilean chapter of Data Protection Q&A, Data Privacy Advisor, Thomson Reuters (2018).
• Author of several local and foreign publications in intellectual property.
  

Seminars

• Frequent lecturer in Intellectual Property and Internet legal seminars, meetings and conferences both in Chile and abroad.